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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:49:45 +0200
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm@darkain.com>
Cc:        Danilo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eg=EAa?= Gondolfo <danilo@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: big.LITTLE status for rk3399/rockpro64?
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:46:14 -0700
Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm@darkain.com> wrote:

> Some more observations.
>=20
> I've full power cycled the Pinebook Pro a few times now rather than just
> software rebooted, and the keyboard/trackpad issue has not come back yet.
>=20
> All 6 cores seem to be working, but not optimally. The big cores are not
> boosting to their max frequency. Regardless, 6 cores is still 50% more th=
an
> 4 cores, so more compute power!
>=20
> This is observed while compiling the FreeBSD kernel directly on the
> Pinebook Pro.
>=20
> dev.cpu.5.freq_levels: 1800/-1 1608/-1 1416/-1 1200/-1 1008/-1 816/-1
> 600/-1 408/-1
> dev.cpu.5.freq: 1416
> dev.cpu.4.freq_levels: 1800/-1 1608/-1 1416/-1 1200/-1 1008/-1 816/-1
> 600/-1 408/-1
> dev.cpu.4.freq: 1416
> dev.cpu.3.freq_levels: 1416/-1 1200/-1 1008/-1 816/-1 600/-1 408/-1
> dev.cpu.3.freq: 1416
> dev.cpu.2.freq_levels: 1416/-1 1200/-1 1008/-1 816/-1 600/-1 408/-1
> dev.cpu.2.freq: 1416
> dev.cpu.1.freq_levels: 1416/-1 1200/-1 1008/-1 816/-1 600/-1 408/-1
> dev.cpu.1.freq: 1416
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1416/-1 1200/-1 1008/-1 816/-1 600/-1 408/-1
> dev.cpu.0.freq: 1416
> hw.temperature.CPU: 56.1C
> hw.temperature.GPU: 51.1C

 This is a problem in our cpufreq framework, all freqs must be the
same. We need to support clusters in it so we could have different
clusters at different speed..

>=20
>=20
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 1:24 PM Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm@darkain.com>
> wrote:
>=20
> > I've enabled all 6 cores now.
> >
> > Unsure if it is related, but there were initialization issues with the
> > keyboard and trackpad after reboot. On first reboot, the keyboard entir=
ely
> > locked up while typing the user name. On second reboot, keyboard
> > functioned, but there was no trackpad once I got into the X session. Af=
ter
> > some time, it eventually started working on its own, no idea why.
> >
> > Hardware aside, compute so far seems to work as expected. I tried openi=
ng
> > large YouTube videos, and watched it stress all 6 cores without issue.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:06 AM Danilo Eg=EAa Gondolfo <danilo@freebsd=
.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:27 PM Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm@darkain.=
com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm curious about this, too. I recently got the Pinebook Pro up and
> >>> running, and would like to start testing all 6 CPU cores for doing
> >>> compilation tasks.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:19 AM Josh Howard <bsd@zeppelin.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > It looks like it's been a couple of months since there's been any n=
ews
> >>> > around it. Anything in particular still needed as far as testing or
> >>> > debugging that goes? I have a Rockpro64 and a RockPi4e (though I do=
n't
> >>> have
> >>> > that booting yet.) that I could potentially test on.
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks
> >>> >
> >>> >
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> >>
> >> The number of CPUs was limited here
> >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D360321
> >>
> >> If you remove the hw.ncpu from your loader.conf you'll be able to use
> >> all the 6 cores.
> >>
> >> Although the commit message mentions a "known issue" with the big.LITT=
LE
> >> architecture, I was able to use all the 6 cores to rebuild the entire
> >> system and I didn't face any issue.
> >>
> >> Maybe manu@ could give us some context about that.
> >>
> >
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